Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast

Dopamine Discipline Explained: The Neuroscience of Delayed Reward

If you struggle with focus, consistency, or self-discipline, I want you to hear this.
This is not a motivation problem. It is dopamine overstimulation.

When your brain is trained on instant reward, it stops working for your future. Planning weakens. Effort feels harder. Long-term goals lose their pull because dopamine is spent on relief rather than on pursuit.

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Why Your New Year’s Goals Fail — and How to Become Supernormal Instead

You set big goals for the new year. But if your brain is hijacked by screens, algorithms, and constant overstimulation, willpower alone will not get you there.

Excess dopamine from the screen miswires your brain, drains motivation, and keeps your nervous system stuck in survival mode. That is why focus fades, follow-through collapses, and every year starts to feel...

The New Year Reset: Decluttering Your Space, Your Mind, and Your Goals

If your mind feels cluttered and stuck as the new year begins, this is not a motivation problem. 🎯

It is a nervous system problem.

When your environment stays cluttered, your brain stays overloaded. Visual noise, mental load, and unfinished decisions keep your nervous system stuck in a low-level state of threat.

When you simplify your space, your bra...

If going home for the holidays leaves you anxious, exhausted, or feeling like you’re twelve years old again, this is not emotional weakness. This is your nervous system.

When you’re around your family of origin, the oldest wiring in your brain comes back online. These patterns were built before you had adult self-regulation. Your limbic system reacts fast, old roles resurface, and your regulated adult self can get pushed offline wit...

Winter Blues or Brain Overload?
If you have been feeling heavier, foggier, or slower this winter, you are not broken. Your brain is overloaded.

Many people mistake this for depression, but often it is a miswired nervous system struggling to regulate in the dark, cold season.

Less sunlight lowers dopamine and serotonin. More isolation weakens emotional rhythm. More screen time overstimulates your reward pathways.

Holiday Overstimulation: How the Season Hijacks Your Dopamine—And What Your Brain Actually Needs

If December leaves you anxious, numb, restless, or overwhelmed, your brain is not malfunctioning. It’s responding to a season that pushes your dopamine system into overdrive. In this episode, I show you how holiday pressure, comparison posts, sugar and alcohol spikes, bright lights, noise, and overloaded schedules shift your nervous syst...

The Neuroscience of Flow: Why Stillness Fuels Your Dopamine

If you feel overstimulated, tense, or stuck in control mode, your brain is not the problem. It’s  your rhythm. In this episode, I show you how your nervous system shifts from chaos to coherence when you stop forcing and start flowing.

Flow is not a mindset. It’s a biological state in which your brain waves, heart rhythm, and emotional circuits sync. When that harmony returns...

Every time you scroll, your brain learns one thing: distraction feels safer than stillness.

In this episode, Dr. Trish Leigh explains the real dopamine hijack happening in modern life, the overstimulating, engineered world that keeps your nervous system running on urgency, novelty, and noise.

As part of No Numb November, you will learn why ancient dopamine wiring struggles in a saturation-based world, how the scro...

Neuroscientist Explains Why You Can’t “Fix” Your Dopamine 

You’ve tried to fix yourself — more routines, more tracking, more control. But neuroscience shows what you’re really chasing isn’t progress… it’s another dopamine hit.

When you constantly tweak, check, or perfect, your brain lights up — not from growth, but from anticipation. That’s why stillness feels unsafe. You’ve trained your nervous system to equate safety with activity.

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You quit everything — screens, stimulation, even connection — thinking it would make you feel alive again.
But three weeks into your dopamine detox, you feel worse. Numb. Flat. Drained.

That’s not failure — it’s feedback. Your brain isn’t broken; it’s withdrawing.
When you’ve spent years wired for constant novelty, cutting dopamine off doesn’t regulate your system — it crashes it.
Your neurons go silent, your motivation ...

You’ve seen dopamine everywhere—on shirts, mugs, even tattoos—but the real issue isn’t “more dopamine,” it’s imbalance. In a world wired for novelty—clicks, explicit matter, endless goals—your brain learns compulsion, not clarity. Dopamine was meant to be a teacher, not a trophy.

This November isn’t just NoFap—it’s No Numb November. Because the problem isn’t only the behavior, it’s the numbing your nervous system keeps chasing. When...

You think you’re just catching up—but suddenly your chest tightens, your breath shortens, and your brain whispers, “You’re not enough.” That’s not a lack of discipline. It’s a nervous system hijack. 🧠

Every scroll trains your brain to crave stimulation instead of stillness and comparison instead of contentment. This is the digital envy loop—a dopamine-driven trap that floods you with pleasure and shame all at once, leaving you rest...

The Dopamine Illusion — Why Pleasure Isn’t the Same as Joy

Your brain isn’t broken—it’s been tricked into chasing quick dopamine spikes and calling them happiness. That’s the illusion. Every swipe, scroll, and surge of stimulation rewires your reward circuits, dulling the calm rhythm of your mind—the peak alpha state where real joy and creativity live.

But here’s the hope: your brain is neuroplastic. It can change, grow, and heal whe...

You don’t need more willpower. You need coherence.
Trying harder isn’t the answer — it’s your brain that needs realignment. Neuroscience shows that willpower lives in your prefrontal cortex, but when dopamine spikes from overstimulation, that part of your brain literally goes offline. That’s why white-knuckling through temptation never works.

True discipline isn’t about control — it’s about coherence. When your nervous syst...

Dopamine Hijack: How Screens Miswire Your Brain (and How to Rewire It Back)

Have you ever opened your phone to “just check one thing”… and suddenly 45 minutes are gone? That isn’t weakness—it’s your brain being hijacked. 

Dopamine, the chemical that drives motivation, gets rewired by screens to chase novelty and notifications instead of real-life rewards. Over time, that leaves you fragmented in focus, drained of ...

Supernormal Creativity – Hijacked by Noise, Rewired for Flow: 

Feeling stuck and uninspired? That’s not a lack of talent—it’s your brain hijacked by screens and constant noise. Digital distractions shut down your creativity networks and keep you locked in survival mode. But here’s the truth: your spark isn’t gone—it’s buried. By creating silence, setting boundaries around what you consume, and giving your brain space to play, you ca...

Your phone isn’t just distracting you—it’s hijacking your brain. Every ping, scroll, and AI “interaction” trains your nervous system to crave chaos instead of calm. Over time, your prefrontal cortex (focus and decision-making) weakens, your bonding hormones misfire, and real life starts to feel flat or unfulfilling. I don’t want this for you. I’m here for you, and I can help you rewire your brain using the principles of neuroscienc...

Gut-Brain Axis and Explicit  Matter Hijack Science:

Did you know gut issues and addictive behaviors can come from the same root cause? When your brain is stuck in survival mode, stress hijacks your nervous system, triggering both digestive problems and the urge to escape through unhealthy habits.

In this episode, you’ll learn practical brain hacks to reset your system, restore balance, and take back control of your health a...

If you’ve ever felt like something’s off — in your focus, your sex life, or your relationships — you’re not alone. This isn’t just a personal issue. It’s a brain issue. And you can change it.

At Dr. Trish Leigh & Co., we help people understand how screen-based content — especially porn — rewires the brain for distraction, disconnection, and dysregulation.

That’s why I made this series for YOU. To help you understand how porn chan...